An entrepreneur from Mogilev, his home was searched. The regional state channel stated that Tychinsky “was a supporter of Ukrainian-Nazi formations” and that he “drove with Ukrainian nationalist symbols in his car.” The latter refers to the official flag of Ukraine.
As a result, a criminal case was opened against Vladimir. He is accused of filming the movement of Russian military Z-equipment on his mobile phone in April 2022 and sending the video to the media, which the authorities recognized as “extremist.”
On October 24, 2023, an appeal hearing was held and the verdict entered into force.
2.5 years of imprisonment in a colony under the general regime.
Operator-adjuster. He was detained after a family holiday, during which a domestic dispute occurred and the police were called. According to the prosecution, Konstantin, while sober, in front of police officers, spoke towards A. Lukashenko in a disrespectful manner, using obscene language. For this he was detained and taken into custody.
On August 25, 2023, the appeal was considered. The verdict came into force.
2 years in prison
Head of the Gomselmash workshop.
On September 8, 2023, an appeal hearing was held, and the verdict came into force.
unknown years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions
20 year old Vladislav was accused of taking photos and videos of military equipment, military personnel, as well as a military airfield in Bobruisk from February 24 to February 25, 2022.
Then Vladislav forwarded at least 9 video files and photos to a telegram channel recognized as extremist in the Republic of Belarus.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
A former MTS employee from Brest was detained in early November 2022. In the “repentance” video, he said that in 2020-2021 he worked at MTS and had access to data. According to the security officials, Andrey handed over the data of several officials and prosecutors to the Black Book of Belarus.
A former cellmate of Tsypak told human rights activists that Andrei was severely beaten during his arrest.
Andrei's case was considered behind closed doors, so the outcome of the trial is unknown to human rights activists.
Andrei Tsypak previously played in the Brest handball club named after Meshkov. From 2020 to 2021, he worked at MTS - and at that time, according to the security forces, he transferred the data of several prosecutors and government officials to the protest initiative.
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He is a 65 year old businessman from the Gomel region was detained for anti-war messages insulting Lukashenko.
In Soviet times, he studied in the Ukrainian Krivoy Rog, worked for Mozyrpromstroy, and in 1992, together with friends, he founded the «Lotus» company, of which he is still a co-owner.
Starotitorov received letters of thanks from the executive committee and the Orthodox Church, was included in the lists of the best entrepreneurs of the Gomel region.
5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
Daniil, who worked at the Grodno branch of Beltelecom, was detained for several comments on social networks in early October 2022 and placed in custody pending trial.
On April 11, 2023, the appeal was considered and the verdict came into force.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony with a general regime.
According to the materials of the court case, on August 30, 2021, Alexey left several offensive comments in one of the Telegram chats and, as the examination showed, thereby publicly insulted Lukashenko, deliberately humiliated his honor and dignity in an indecent form.
The judge sentenced Alexey to restriction of freedom without referral to a correctional facility for a period of 3 years. However, the prosecutor appealed the verdict. On February 9, 2023, the Judicial Board of the Mogilev Regional Court imposed a new punishment - imprisonment.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
As it was established during the preliminary investigation, from July to September 2021, Vitaliy Ostreiko allegedly posted several publications in the Telegram messenger using a mobile phone with deliberately false information about Lukashenko’s activities. Moreover, a number of comments he left were offensive and humiliating.
It is known that Ostreyko was detained on September 29, 2021, along with many other people who left comments on social networks about the death of Andrei Zeltser and a KGB officer.
The consideration of the political prisoner’s case began in the court of the Moskovsky district of Minsk on November 18, 2022. Human rights activists are clarifying the decision.
Vitaly was kept in pre-trial detention center No. 1, and then in investigative prison No. 8.
On March 16, 2023, Vitaly was tried again in the Minsk District Court, this time under Art. 369 of the Criminal Code (Insulting a representative of authority). The verdict is unknown.
It is still unknown where the political prisoner was transferred.
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According to the version of the prosecution, Pavel from December 2020 to June 2022 in ok.ru on his page he posted publications with images of Lukashenko, in which he humiliated the honor and dignity of the victim using, among other things, profanity.
In December 2020, he posted a digital image with a combination of a red background and a green swastika with an ornament, which violated the National Flag of the Republic of Belarus..
3 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
According to the materials of the prosecution, at the end of September 2021, Oleg Dutchik posted in vk.com a comment in which he spoke negatively about the death of an employee of the State Security Committee Dmitry Fedosyuk in Minsk.
In addition, over the past year, the man has repeatedly posted negative statements in various communities with insults to the president, humiliated his honor and dignity.
The last post in his account in vk.ru it was made on March 27 and was as follows: «Arrest is a restriction of freedom».
During the trial, the man pleaded not guilty.
3 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
According to the prosecution, from January to December 2021 in various Telegram channels Pavel Voropai posted comments insulting the chairman of the Central Commission for Elections and Republican Referendums Lydia Yermoshina, Chairman of the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly Natalia Kochanova, Minister of Foreign Affairs Vladimir Makei, Prosecutor General of Belarus Andrey Shved, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Dmitry Korzyuk, Press Secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Olga Chemadanova, Head of Vitebsk Customs Pavel Lobachev, as well as a prosecutor's employee, judges of one of the metropolitan districts and other government representatives.
3.5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
He is a 55 year old photographer.
He was forced to leave for Russia due to political persecution in 2020, but due to an expired passport and the outbreak of war, he returned to Belarus in May 2022.
It is known that in September and November 2020, a man posted offensive information on the Telegram channel and the Viber messenger regarding Lukashenko, as well as the Minister of Internal Affairs, who at that time was Yuri Karaev.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
The recent deputy director General of «BelTA» for ideological work, previously worked in the administration of Lukashenko and even received awards from him.
The exact date of the former official's detention is unknown. But it is known that on September 8, 2021, representatives of law enforcement agencies made a report that during the complex of operational search measures, information was received that the current employee of «BelTA» Aderikho may be providing the telegram channel «Nick and Mike» with classified information about Alexander Lukashenko's work schedule. Soon the official was detained.
The case was handled by employees of the State Security Committee. Aderikho was held in custody before the trial. Now Aderikho is convicted of transferring official information that was under his jurisdiction to a representative of the «People's Anti-Crisis Management» and the telegram channel «Nick and Mike». The motive is avoiding lustration after a change of power.
In addition to the term in the colony, Sergei was awarded a penalty 16 000 BYN.
5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
It is known that Vladimir was accused of 8 episodes of insults — the man left abusive comments to the government representative in ok.ru, and also distributed their personal data.
Nothing is known about the details of the charges under other articles.
2.5 years of imprisonment.
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